Quotes about "Retirement & Later Life"

I guess art itself is insane. Its actual function is rarely clear, and yet people give their hearts and souls and lives to it, and have for all of history. ”

I was interested in music and making movies about musicians, but my own experiences, and doing what it felt like for me to be a drummer? Nah, I wasn't interested in that. ”

There's something very particular about the kind of rage you feel when you're alone in a practice room by yourself, unable to master a simple thing like a rudiment. You keep trying to master this very basic thing, and when you don't get it, you just scream. I broke a lot of drum heads, and I broke a lot of sticks. ”

Practicing is not normally fun. Sometimes people say they're practicing, but they're really just enjoying themselves and the instrument. That's not real practice. ”

Real practice means working on stuff you're not good at. Real practice is about butting your head against the wall repeatedly until you get it right. ”

There's something very particular about the kind of rage you feel when you're alone in a practice room by yourself, unable to master a simple thing like a rudiment. ”

If you're an artist, you want to draw from real life; you want to draw from experiences, emotion, and it's something that a lot of musicians juggle with. I've always found it so fascinating. ”

I was a jazz drummer, and it was my life for a while: what I lived and breathed every day. ”

My whole life was geared toward being a highly educated person. ”

Every performer can get better. It's not about staying with what God gave you and doing nothing with it for the rest of your life. ”